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Hi, I figured I post this here since this is related to the public available release of Vista SP1 for Vista Ultimate x64. After installing SP1 from Windows Update, I began to experience poor audio quality, crackling, buzzing, etc with my Creative X-FI ExtremeMusic sound card.

I read up that some drivers need to be reinstalled by uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Well, that method generally solves it for a few days, but it definately comes back. Now, if I disable the device in device manager, reboot, and then reenable, the crackling goes away. Is there anyway to solve this problem permanently other than having to do several additional steps to bring the sound back up to par? Hi, I have discovered the same thing as you. I have a Dell XPS 710 H2C with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition SP1, and my sound card is an X-Fi ExtremeMusic (drivers: 2.15.0006).

DVDs played in whatever player I use, whether Media Player Classic or Nero ShowTime, start to exhibit crackling noises and other audio distortion after a while, maybe 5-10 minutes into a movie. Similarly, CDs played on iTunes while importing them have crackling sounds after a few minutes, but the crackling stops completely when the importing has finished and the music is being played from my HD instead of an optical drive. I wonder if there is some problem with the way that resources are being allocated when media is being played from optical discs. I never had this problem when I was using Windows XP Professional SP2. I didn't install Ultimate until after SP1 was released, so I do not know whether this is a problem relating to SP1 or not. I haven't tried it, but perhaps a DVD copied to the hard disk via a tool such as DVDFab or DVD Cloner and then played from the HD will avoid the audio distortion?

Clearly not a satisfactory workaround. Hi, Just as an update. I have opened a support ticket with MS to see if this problem can be further looked into. I am using the same driver version as WarFlail and are the latest on Creative's website (2.15.0006).

However, the crackling happens whether the media is accessed from the DVD drive or hard drive. I hope a solution can be found soon. I will update this thread if there are any further updates. Just if anyone is wondering, my system setup is: ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MSI GeForce 7950 GX2 4GB corsair memory 1 AMD X2 Dual-core CPU 4800+ 2 500GB WD hard drives 2 dvd drives (rw and rom) Creative X-FI ExtremeMusic -vtcool. Me too, I have exactly the same problem. After installing SP! On my ultimate 64bit, my x-fi fatalaty became unusable.

((( Crackling sounds and chirping just like everybody has here. So here's what I did: I tried uninstalling SP! But first disabled the sound card, uninstalled the drivers. After removal of SP! Was completed, I restarted and installed the newest (006) march drivers for x-fi. I have uninterrupted sound now.

I went in to the control panel and enable the usuals in creative audio console ->crystalazier, cmss, eax to max. Samsung Sgh D780 Flash File there. Pressed ok and back to the drawing board. Owner Manual Velodyne Ct 150. Sound is messed up again. So you see, the problem is not with SP1 (although maybe a clean install of vista would help, not just unstalling SP!). So I went to the sound properties again and ticked off the 'enable sound blaster enchancements'. The sounds works great now, but obviously without any creative candy.

It's hard to pin point who's problem it is, Microsoft's or Creative. But knowing how Creative treats it's customers lately, I can easily imagine that someone in the company didn't do their job. ((( we need a fix desperately!!! I just tried the selection of 'Disable Sound Blaster Enhancements' checkbox and after rebooting a few times to see if the crackle is around again, it seems to have went away.